JESUS CHRIST ITS A TORNADO, GET IN THE CLOSET!

/additionally why is this moron not also getting in said closet

corley989:
/additionally why is this moron not also getting in said closet

Tom Cruise is in it?

corley989: JESUS CHRIST ITS A TORNADO, GET IN THE CLOSET CLOSE-IT!

WE GOT A TOHNAHDO, GIT IN THE CLOSET! GIT. IN. THE CLOSET!

Because closets in Virginia are made out of cement.

GET TO THA CHOPPA...err...closet!

Closets: Way better than being next to a bay window when a tornado hits your house.

Shorty Longstrokin

That was a lot funnier than it had any right to be.

/ fixen der headline, bitte

corley989:
/additionally why is this moron not also getting in said closet

You don't need protection when your behind a camera.

A good dad would be stuffing some couch cushions and maybe even a mattress in the closet. True, if the whole house gets sucked up it won't do any good. But if the framing stands, the more padding you can get around you, the better your chances of not getting brained by debris flying through sheetrock or falling on you.

what the heck is a clowzit?

billybobtoo: what the heck is a clowzit?

This.

Aaaand the first thing we do when we see a tornado through the window? Why, we open up the door and step outside, that's what!

"Raw video" with bleeps?....Umm, no.

Here's another one. Warning: turn your speakers WAY down. Or better yet, turn sound completely off. These people aren't too bright.

Clicky (new window)

Uhh that's the same video

Do they have basements in Virginia? Just curious.

I grew up in West Texas and have seen my share of tornados. People dont realise that unless you have a basement, which very few people do, you are not going to survive a direct hit by a big one. My #1 ineffectual tornado hiding place is under a mattress in the bath-tub with some beer and sammiches or driving like hell in the other direction.

Same thing happens to me all the time but without the tornado or camera...

A little digging drug up this gem of a guy and a tornado (pops)

Damn tornados. Another thing that might kill me out there.

/moving out to Norfolk, VA in a month or two.
//death-incuding things build character, I'm told.

I think the disclaimer at the bottom was slightly more entertaining than the stupified redneck.

/1 and 1/4 stars
//I judge like McMahon!

fark you wrek

/When will I learn?

wrek: A little digging drug up this gem of a guy and a tornado (pops)

A tornado of 80s awesomeness?

InferiousX: Do they have basements in Virginia? Just curious.

Probably not in Tidewater. I would imagine that the house is on a slab. The closest thing to a basement in Suffolk would likely be a crawlspace. I could be wrong, but that seems to be the case throughout Hampton Roads as far as newer homes go. High water table = continually flooded basements.

The guy's closet was probably the safest place in the house, maybe as far to the interior as possible. Some protection is better than none.

wrek: A little digging drug up this gem of a guy and a tornado (pops)

Excuse me, your slip is showing.

Ghastly: Unless the closet he's talking about is in the basement it's not exactly all that much safer than being anywhere else above ground in the house if the tornado hits it full on.

uh, yes it is. for all but the strongest tornadoes, the more walls you put between you and the outside the less chance you have of getting hit by shattered windows and other flying debris.

He may also have a closet built to withstand a tornado.
((mumble) gauge plate metal sandwiched between 3/4" plywood on walls and ceiling, along with enough ties and fasteners to hold everything together and anchor it to the slab.)

Um... maybe the water table gets in the way, but why build houses above ground in tornado-prone areas? That's about as stupid as living a notch below sea level between two large bodies of water protected only by a few levees in an area prone to violent storms...oh wait.

Yeah. I'll take my earthquakes, thanks. They don't chase you down the freeway as you go 80mph in your little car, with your only hope being the concrete bridge 5 miles away. Your only real risk of dying in an earthquake is from something man-made falling on you, or blowing up... both of which can be prevented with enough engineering power... (woo engineers).

As for the "I'm too poor to move" rationale... if that crap happened to me on a yearly basis, I'd sell everything I owned and I'd walk to a safer state.

/knows Mexicans cross a desert to get away from a crappy life... and Americans sit and whine?

Slugs_of_a_banana_nature: but why build houses above ground in tornado-prone areas?

I'm not sure central and southeastern Virginia are actually in "tornado alley". Pretty close to the edge though so you might be on to something.

/you meet some of the most brilliant folk on the internets.

wrek: A little digging drug up this gem of a guy and a tornado (pops)

I hear if you get picked up by that tornado it'll never let you down.

That's probably the biggest tornado occurrence (5 of them) we've had in.. two decades? Might be stretching it.. but aside from a mild/momentary touchdown here and there when a good storm front comes through the right topography.. usually somewhere out in the woods in the country. . that's definitely the most destruction I've seen tornados do in VA.

We get hurricane residuals and get flooded now and then, at least in Richmond since we're on the river. Bout it.

Wrek, it's long past being played out.

The I'm a tiger, I'm a tiger, suck my dick, I'm a tiger...where is that from? I laugh every time I see it referenced, but I totally don't get it.

/also laughed my ass off at "pet peef" from another thread
//lol, peef
///there is something wrong with me

The video ends right when it gets good.

Um....closet?

WRONG place to hide from a tornado.

Even without a basement, learn to pronounce BAFFTUB Rainman. Might save a life.

This one still makes me laugh-

Link (Not a rickroll)

InferiousX: Do they have basements in Virginia? Just curious.

Around here, no. And we didn't have tornados, either, until a few days ago..

wrek: A little digging drug up this gem of a guy and a tornado (pops)

Foiled by a guy who was so sick of getting rickrolled he made his own stylesheet color Rickroll links to mauve.
Good luck fighting that.

nimeye: This one still makes me laugh-

Link (Not a rickroll)

WAY funnier than a Rick-roll.

/not that RR is funny at all...

scotth: Um....closet?

WRONG place to hide from a tornado.

Even without a basement, learn to pronounce BAFFTUB Rainman. Might save a life.

Um. Dude has a family. It would have to be a pretty big farking bathtub to fit them all. Plus, since the sleeping quarters of most 2 story homes are upstairs, so are the full baths (judging from the other houses, I assume that he lived in a two story). I'd take my chances in the downstairs closet, which is probably the most interior space and surrounded by load-bearing walls.

Slugs_of_a_banana_nature: Um... maybe the water table gets in the way, but why build houses above ground in tornado-prone areas? That's about as stupid as living a notch below sea level between two large bodies of water protected only by a few levees in an area prone to violent storms...oh wait.

Yeah. I'll take my earthquakes, thanks. They don't chase you down the freeway as you go 80mph in your little car, with your only hope being the concrete bridge 5 miles away. Your only real risk of dying in an earthquake is from something man-made falling on you, or blowing up... both of which can be prevented with enough engineering power... (woo engineers).

As for the "I'm too poor to move" rationale... if that crap happened to me on a yearly basis, I'd sell everything I owned and I'd walk to a safer state.

/knows Mexicans cross a desert to get away from a crappy life... and Americans sit and whine?

SE VA isn't really all that prone to tornadoes. It isn't something that is on everyone's mind. I lived there for about six years and can remember exactly one tornado incident. They happen, but the main concern is Nor'easters (which are common) and hurricanes. We certainly don't whine about them. No one, by the way, died during this outbreak of twisters.

In the future, it may be a good idea to figure out what you're talking about before you go laying your ignorance bare here.

/If there was only some way to look up information using that computer of yours. . . .

nimeye: Do you want that on tape?

This was of course all over the local news on Monday. Lesser reported was that 4 smaller ones touched down on Norfolk Naval Base where I work. The first one started as a water spout right next to my pier then moved up on land and went right through our parking lot. My truck window was blown in by the pressure differential as well as about 50 other cars. I've lived here since 1985 and this is the first touchdown I've ever seen in Tidewater. Hurricanes, that's another story.......